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China has two stealth fighter aircraft, Chengdu J-20 and Shenyang J-35, both classified as fifth-generation fighter by United States Department of Defense. [53] By the late 1990s, several Chinese fifth-generation fighter programs, grouped under the program codename J-XX or XXJ, were identified by western intelligence sources. PLAAF officials ...
[10] [11] It has been suggested that Lockheed Martin "labeled the F-35 a 'fifth-generation' fighter in 2005, a term it borrowed from Russia in 2004 to describe the F-22". [12] Some accounts have subdivided the 4th generation into 4 and 4.5, or 4+ and 4++. The table below shows how some authors have divided up the generations, progressively ...
The Air Force has Congressionally mandated floor of 271 C-130 aircraft. 6 to be divested in FY2025. [16] C-130J Super Hercules/J-30 Super Hercules Lockheed Martin USA Propeller Tactical airlifter: Manned 2006 [15] 151 [2] C-146A Wolfhound [17] Fairchild-Dornier Germany Propeller Transport: Manned c. 2011 [6] 20 [18] Delivered 2011–2017. [6]
Fighter aircraft (1,690) F-15 Eagle: United States air superiority: F-15C: 145 145 F-15C total force as of September 2023 (USAF Almanac). [1] 29 F-15C - Active. 116 F-15C - Air National Guard. Trainer aircraft listed separately. F-15E Strike Eagle: United States multirole: 218 218 F-15E total force as of September 2023 (USAF Almanac) [1] F-15EX ...
The US Marine Corps conducted the fourth test of its experimental unmanned combat aerial vehicle. The XQ-58A Valkyrie sensed and transmitted target data for a force of F-35 stealth fighters.
The F-35 was the product of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program, which was the merger of various combat aircraft programs from the 1980s and 1990s. One progenitor program was the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Advanced Short Take-Off/Vertical Landing (ASTOVL) which ran from 1983 to 1994; ASTOVL aimed to develop a Harrier jump jet replacement for the U.S. Marine Corps ...
The only jet-powered fighter to ever be deployed by the Royal Canadian Navy. 1947 1948 [34] 895 [34] F7U Cutlass: Naval multirole fighter: Chance Vought First tailless production fighter in the United States as well as United States Navy's first jet equipped with swept wings and the first to be designed with afterburners. 1948 1951 320 F-10 ...
[236] [237] [51] Gen. Mark D. Kelly, the head of USAF Air Combat Command (ACC) added that the United States knows China is on schedule for its 6th-generation fighter program. [238] In June 2022, the US Air Force reactivated the 65th Aggressor Squadron, equipped with F-35A to conduct opposing force training and replicate Chinese aircraft threats.